BLT Pasta Salad
#7478 - 04/26/03 05:11 PM
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Hey all! I converted this tonight for the first time. This pasta salad is killer! It's always been a big hit at cookouts. I thought it tasted great with my adjustments too. I'll post the original recipe, noting my adjustments. I halved the recipe also, although not always exactly. This is one you need to make personal adjustments for your own triggers with lettuce & tomato. I think it originally came from Parents Magazine. Enjoy!
BLT Pasta Salad
1 pkg small pasta (such as corkscrew, elbows, shells, etc.) cooked, then rinsed with cold water (1/2 box)
4 ripe plum tomatoes, halved, sliced (1 1/2 seeded & diced)
3 c. sliced Romaine (1 handful pre-cut bagged Romaine)
1 lb pkg thick cut bacon, cooked & crumbled (4 slices turkey bacon)
1/2 c. mayo (1/4 c. FF)
2 T. cider vinegar (1 T)
1 tsp sugar (1/2 tsp)
1/2 tsp salt (1/4 tsp)
1/4 tsp black pepper (few grinds of the pepper mill)
Mix pasta, bacon, lettuce, and tomato. Whisk remaining ingredients. Toss.
Serves 6.
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can we have mayo and bacon? Because that sounds delicious!
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We can have fat-free mayo, and turkey bacon in moderation. Now, if only I could eat lettuce.... 
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Why cant you eat lettuce Amelia? I can handle it in small amounts and at the end of the meal.
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-Angela
Healed in Jesus' Name 
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I don't know . I can't have raw greens at all--no green salads or coleslaw for me. I can have cooked greens (like cooked spinach and cabbage), though. In fact, I can eat almost any green thing once it's cooked. Same for carrots. Go figure.
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Hi; Where is the fibre in this salad, it is the pasta and could you have bread with it to make it more filling?
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Yes, the pasta is the soluble fiber. When I altered this recipe, I cut back some on the lettuce & tomato just to reduce some of the insoluble. And, of course the turkey bacon was just a little, cause you can only have so much of that.
We usually either have it as a side at a cookout, or as a light dinner. Of course you could have bread with it. That would give you even more soluble fiber.
Hope this helps!
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I find that either bacon or tomato is a big trigger for me regardless of when I eat it. Is this common for anyone else?
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As long as I've had soluble fiber, I'm okay with a little turkey bacon and a little tomato. But then, I have problems with carrots, even cooked, no matter what else I've eaten and they're supposed to be safe. 
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hI MAGS; it would be a good lunch as well. that is when I will probsbly have it.
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